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Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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RITZVILLE – The deadline to apply for the 2023 USDA Conservation Stewardship Program is Oct. 13. The program is open to producers seeking technical and financial assistance with conservation efforts. Under the program, farmers can receive payments for managing, maintaining and expanding conservation measures like planting cover crops and buffer strips, as well as improving pollinator habitat. Farmers can also receive help with irrigation monitoring, herbicide application, grazing systems and more. Applicants will be r...
RITZVILLE – The city may be growing in the near future to include more property near the Interstate 90-State Highway 261 interchange. H & L Reimer Family L.L.C. has submitted a letter of intent allowing annexation of a property adjacent to the corporate limits. The land, described by the Adam’s County Assessor’s Office as a tract 150 feet by 330 feet (49,500 square feet), is located next to Love’s Travel Stop and across the road from Big Bend Electric. If accepted, the proposed annexation would be zoned as “tourist commercia...
DISPATCH LOG RITZVILLE – The Adams County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls for service from Aug. 14-18: Aug. 14 Alex Wright, 33, of Wenatchee, arrested for first-degree no valid operator’s license and released in the 1300 block of North State Highway 261, Ritzville. False alarm in the 800 block of South Skylark Way, Othello. Alan Gomez Cortez, 37, of Othello, arrested for physical control-driving while under the influence after deputies responded to a call of a vehicle parked on private property in the 2000...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos boys football team heads into the Class 2B season ranked as the No. 3 team in the state by ScoreBook Live. The Broncos only graduated one player from its 9-1 squad, which reached the playoffs last year. This year, the Broncos team sheds Kahlotus, but adds Harrington to the sports combine that includes athletes from Lind-Ritzville, Sprague and Washtucna high schools. Brenda Bermea will coach the team with Mike Lynch at his side. Bermea is in his first ye...
ST. JOHN – Several families are combining their stage skills for three performances of "The Pirates of the Penzance" this coming Friday and Saturday. Directed by Eastern Washington University student Dominic Treis of St. John, the free performances will take place at Eccles Community Hall, 9752 state Highway 23. Show times are 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, and 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27. Sound is being managed by Ken Treis. Jackie Widhalm and Danielle Treis handled c...
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had read some history about my mom’s family. It is interesting to envision how life was over 100 years ago. Life was certainly not easy especially travel and the comfort of riding in a vehicle with A/C in the summer and heat in the winter was non-existent. I would have to say that those relatives that went before us were certainly a lot tougher than we have become. When I read the family history I saw that my great grandparents and great u...
Sen. Schoesler omitted info on police pursuits In a recent op-ed, state Sen. Mark Schoesler, alluded to a new “bad law” that prevents law enforcement from pursuing criminal suspects in most situations. He cherry-picks a paragraph from an op-ed in a Seattle newspaper written by one of his senate colleagues, Marka Dhingra, who happens to be the first Sikh elected to a public office anywhere in the U.S.. (The Sikhs are a persecuted religious sect in India.) Also, she has been a deputy prosecuting attorney for King County for...
The local news coverage of the celebration for units returning from Iraq and Afghanistan left me with mixed emotions. I was delighted that our fighting men and women were being embraced by our community. At the same time, however, I couldn't help feeling an emptiness as I recalled the lack of welcome for those of us who returned from Viet Nam. We came home to an ungrateful, and sometimes hostile, nation. In some extreme cases, we were spit on as we got off the plane. Some of...
RITZVILLE – The airport on Friday, Aug. 19, received an unusual visitor – a Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. Currently deployed to Deer Park, the aircraft's two ex-Army pilots work for Northwest Helicopters, an Olympia-based company that provides aerial firefighting support from Washington to California. On Friday, the helicopter dropped hundreds of gallons of water on the nearby Wagner Road Fire in Whitman County, and the Ritzville airport was their closest refueling sto...
EWAN – A fire that broke out Thursday afternoon was in patrol status on Monday, Aug. 22. The Wagner Road Fire broke out at about 2:04 p.m. Aug. 18 and grew to nearly 800 acres by late Thursday evening, officials said. The blaze was burning in dry grass, and in stubble and active wheat fields. The dry grass and brush was taller than two feet, officials said, noting in many areas the height exceeded 4 feet. That night the fire flared up and grew to about 7,000 acres, o...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Aug. 24, 1922 New wheat is coming in slowly Wheat is coming in very slowly this year and local warehouses are about as quiet as other business in the city. Generally at this season of the year, wheat hauling has started in earnest and the wagons and trucks form long processions upon the city streets. Billy Ross, of the O'Neil Grain Co., says he is usually handing from two to three thousand bushels daily at this time of the season, but...
OTHELLO – Five people were hospitalized after being ejected Wednesday, Aug. 17, from a vehicle that flipped near Milepost 49 of state Highway 24, west of the city. Othello residents Aleyssa J. Hernandez, 21; Victoria F. DellaToree, 19; Freddy Gonzalez Rodgriguez, 19; and Trinidad Rodriguez Gonalez, 16; and Toppenish resident Elisia D. Reyes, 16; were all transported to Kadlec Medical Center in Richland for injuries they sustained in the 3:50 p.m. crash. According to the W...
RITZVILLE – A local man has joined the staff of The Ritzville Adams County Journal as a part-time reported. Dale Brown, 67, began work earlier this month. He'll be covering news in the Lind, Ritzville and Washtucna areas. Brown also hopes to write more human interest stories via profiles of area residents. "Dale has already hit the ground running," Publisher/Owner Roger Harnack said. "Given his life experiences and love of Ritzville, he'll bring more in-depth coverage of l...
SPRAGUE – A local couple will share honors as the 2022 Sprague Days grand marshals. Dick and Claudette Sharp were selected to lead the Sept. 10 town celebration, which includes a parade, Renegade Restorations' car and bike show, a beer garden and more. The fun will last all day, organizers said, noting there is also a back sale, vendors in the park, family activities planned by Future Farmers of America students, a 3 p.m. raffle and music by The Old Dogs from 11:30 a.m. to 2...
RITZVILLE – Police Chief Dave McCormick raised the problem of catalytic converter thefts over the past several months during the City Council's Aug. 16 meeting. Thieves seem to work in teams, he said. They're brazen, sometimes jacking up vehicles and chopping off converters with reciprocal saws in the dead of night. Since the 1970s, the Environmental Protection Agency has required all newer cars to be outfitted with a catalytic converter-a small metal box clamped to the e...